Glove-drier



(No Model.)

J. W. HULL."

GLOVE DRIER.

No. 606,628. Patented June 28, 1898.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WELLINGTON HULL, or DAYTON, OHIO.

GLOVE-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,628, dated June 28, 1898. Application filed November 15,1897. Serial No. 658,519. (No model.)

useful Improvements in Glove-Briers; and I. do declare the following to be a full, clear;

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention consists of means for retaining the shape of gloves after being worn. When glovessuch as kid, undressed kid, dtc.are removed from the hands, the perspiration causes the fingers to stick together, and in this condition it is customary to lay them aside until again needed.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient and inexpensive device for drying gloves and preserving them in their proper shape and condition when removed from the hands.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention, Figure 1 isa plan view of the inner side or palm of my improved glovedrier. Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the same side adjacent to the handle. Fig. 3 is an enlarged edge view of the portion of the drier adjacent to the handle.

The drier or glove skeleton frame is made out of one continuous piece of wire of suffi cient strength to permit of its being inserted handle 2 and an eye 3 in the extreme outer end thereof. The twist in said wire continues up to the point 4, from whence the shortest end of the wire'is made to form the second andthird digits 5 and 6. The end of said wire, after forming the second digit 5,is carried up and clenched in a loop 7, that is formed in an intermediate part of the handle. The other end of the wire forms the fourth and fifth digits 8 and 9 and is passed through the eye or loop 7 and, continuing, forms the thumb or first digit 10, thesaid thumbbeing formed within the width or space occupied by the skeleton frame, with intervening space v 11 between it and the index finger or digit 5,

so as to permit it to enter the thumb of a glove. After forming the thumb or first digit 10 the end of, the wire is projected into the loop 7 and is clenched over portion 12 of the wire that passes through said loop to form thethumb. The end of the wire that forms the digit 5 is also clenched over said portion 12 in said loop, and thus a complete rigid skeleton frame is constructed that is light to handle and at the same time has a sufficient strength and rigidity to enable its entry into a glove that has just been removed from the hand.

The drier or skeleton'frame is enameled or otherwise covered to improve its appearance and protect it from rust or tarnishment.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. A drier for gloves, comprising a single piece of wire twisted upon itself to form a handle, the end of said wire on one side of said handle, forming the second and third digits, and-the end'of 'said wire on the other side of said handle, forming the fourth and fifth digits, and the thumb; and the extreme ends of said wire being clenched to an intermediate part of said handle, as herein shown and described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a glovedrier consisting of a single piece of wire twisted to form a handle with a loop in the end and in the intermediate part thereof, and one end of said wire continuing from the twisted portion and forming the second and third digits, and having its extreme end clenched in the loop in the intermediate part of the handle, the other end of said wire continuing from said twisted handle, forming the fourth and fifth digits, and passing through the loop in the intermediate portion of the handle and forming the thumb or first digit, with the extreme end clenched in said loop, as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WELLINGTON HULL.

Witnesses:

R. J. MOOARTY, WM. Voss. 

